" Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human."

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com·pre·hen·sion) (kmpr-hnshn)
n.

The act or fact of grasping the meaning, nature, or importance of; understanding.

The knowledge that is acquired in this way.

Capacity to include.

Logic. The sum of meanings and corresponding implications inherent in a term.

I comprehend why crime exists. Crime is theft, fraud, perjury, defamation. I comprehend why brutality exists. Brutality is rape, murder. I can even, to a lesser degree, comprehend stalkers, serial killers, matricide, fratricide, genocide.
But this, this I cannot comprehend. This is not criminal, this is not an act caused by madness. This chills me to a cellular level.
"Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world. "
- Marquis De Sade